The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. 371 competitors, 298 men and 73 women, took part in 180 events in 22 sports.
The Soviet Union won 50 gold medal in the year, when the fiftieth anniversary of the USSR's founding was celebrated in the country. That fact pleased the Soviet authorities.
Medalists
The USSR finished first in the final medal rankings, with 50 gold and 99 total medals.
Gold
Athletics
Mykola Avilov — men's decathlon
Anatoliy Bondarchuk — men's hammer throw
Valeriy Borzov — men's 100 metres
Valeriy Borzov — men's 200 metres
Lyudmila Bragina — women's 1500 metres
Nadezhda Chizhova — women's shot put
Faina Melnik — women's discus throw
Viktor Saneyev — men's triple jump
Jüri Tarmak — men's high jump
Basketball
Alzhan Zharmukhamedov, Zurab Sakandelidze, Gennady Volnov, Ivan Yedeshko, Sergei Kovalenko, Modestas Paulauskas, Anatoly Polivoda, Ivan Dvornyi, Mikheil Korkia, Aleksandr Belov, Sergey Belov and Aleksandr Boloshev — men's team competition.
Boxing
Boris Kuznetsov — men's featherweight
Vyacheslav Lemeshev — men's 71–75 kg
Canoeing
Aleksandr Shaparenko — men's K1 1000m kayak singles
Yuliya Ryabchynskaya — women's K1 500m kayak singles
Nikolai Gorbachev and Viktor Kratasyuk — men's K2 1000m kayak pairs
Yekaterina Kuryshko and Lyudmila Pinayeva-Khvedosyuk — women's K2 500m kayak pairs Vladas Česiūnas and Yury Lobanov — men's C2 1000m Canadian pairs Yury Stetsenko, Valery Didenko, Yury Filatov and Vladimir Morozov — men's K4 1000m kayak fours
Cycling
Valery Yardy, Gennady Komnatov, Valery Likhachov and Boris Shukov — men's team road race Vladimir Semenets and Igor Tselovalnykov — men's 2000m tandem
Diving
Vladimir Vasin — men's springboard
Equestrian
Yelena Petushkova, Pepel, Ivan Kalita, Ikhor, Ivan Kizimov, Tarif — dressage team
Fencing
Viktor Sidyak — men's sabre individual
Svetlana Tširkova, Alexandra Zabelina, Yelena Belova-Novikova, Galina Gorokhova and Tatyana Samusenko-Petrenko — women's foil team
Gymnastics
Viktor Klimenko — men's pommel horse
Nikolay Andrianov — men's floor exercises
Lyudmila Turishcheva — women's all-around individual
Olga Korbut — women's balance beam
Olga Korbut — women's floor exercises
Tamara Lazakovich, Elvira Saadi, Lyudmila Turishcheva, Lyubov Burda, Olga Korbut and Antonina Koshel — women's team combined exercises
Judo
Shota Chochishvili — men's half-heavyweight (93 kg)
Modern pentathlon
Pavel Lednev, Boris Onyshchenko and Vladimir Shmelyov — men's team competition
Rowing
Men's single sculls – 1st place ( gold medal) Yury Malyshev
Men's double sculls – 1st place ( gold medal) Gennadi Korshikov Aleksandr Timoshinin
Sailing
Vitaly Dyrdyra and Valentyn Mankin — men's tempest class
Shooting
Yakov Zheleznyak — men's running game target
Volleyball
Nina Smoleyeva, Tatyana Tretyakova-Ponyaeva, Lyubov Tyurina, Inna Ryskal, Roza Salikhova, Tatyana Sarycheva, Tatyana Gonobobleva, Natalya Kudreva, Galina Leontyeva, Lyudmila Borozna, Lyudmila Buldakova and Vera Duyunova-Galushka — women's team competition
Water polo
Viacheslav Sobchenko, Vladimir Zhmudsky, Nikolay Melnikov, Leonid Osipov, Aleksandr Shidlovsky, Aleksandr Dreval, Vadim Gulyaev, Aleksandr Kabanov, Anatoly Akimov, Aleksey Barkalov and Aleksandr Dolgushin — men's team competition
Weightlifting
Mukharby Kirzhinov — men's lightweight
Jaan Talts — men's heavyweight
Vasily Alekseyev — men's super heavyweight
Wrestling
Rustem Kazakov — men's Greco-Roman bantamweight
Shamil Khisamutdinov — men's Greco-Roman lightweight
Valery Rezantsev — men's Greco-Roman light heavyweight
Anatoly Roshchin — men's Greco-Roman super heavyweight
Roman Dimitriyev — men's freestyle light flyweight
Zagalav Abdulbekov — men's freestyle featherweight
Levan Tediashvili — men's freestyle middleweight
Ivan Yarygin — men's freestyle heavyweight
Aleksandr Medved — men's freestyle super heavyweight
Silver
Athletics
Yevgeny Arzhanov — men's 800 metres
Valeriy Borzov, Aleksandr Kornelyuk, Vladimir Lovetskiy and Juris Silovs — men's 4 × 100 m relay Vladimir Golubnichy — men's 20 km walk Leonid Lytvynenko — men's decathlon Jānis Lūsis — men's javelin throw Veniamin Soldatenko — men's 50 km walk Nijole Sabaite — women's 800 metres